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Prime Boys: Tinted

The hip-hop trio from the 6ix head to the frozen wilds in this clip for their latest single. The setting suits their stone-cold flows and beats, and the rotation of the rhymers keeps things interesting.

Prime Boys: Tinted

By Kerry Doole

Prime Boys - "Tinted" (Entertainment One): Yesterday, the Toronto hip-hop trio released a video for this new single.


Directed by Elliot Clancy Osberg [Roy Woods], it features the group — Jimmy Prime, Donnie, and Jay Whiss — cruising on four wheelers through a wintry wonderland. Not the usual setting for a hip-hop clip, but it is a fitting backdrop for their stone-cold flows and beats.

Having rotating rappers deliver the rhymes works well, and there is plenty of bravado at work here ("all this money is contagious, we're doing shit for the ages"). The cut is produced by Murda Beatz [Drake, Gucci Mane], with customary authority.

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In four years of putting out music together, Prime Boys have grabbed significant exposure via tracks like "I Heard" (473K YouTube views) and recent single "Come Wit It." They star in the Viceland documentary 6ix Rising and have earned support from Drake’s OVO Sound Radio.

Each member of Prime Boys has been busy with solo projects, and Jimmy Prime and Murda Beatz recently collaborated on another hot track, "Drop Out."

They're ready for the prime time indeed.

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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.
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Not By Choice on MuchOnDemand on MuchMusic in 2002.

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Obituary: Mike Bilcox of Ajax, Ontario Pop-Punk Band Not By Choice

Former drummer and now head of Round One Sports & Entertainment Liam Killeen pens this tribute to his former bandmate, with words from The Feldman Agency's Jeff Craib, Sum 41's Dave Baksh, Simple Plan's Chuck Comeau and more.

Mike Bilcox, lead singer and guitarist of Ajax, Ontario’s second most famous pop-punk band, Not By Choice, passed away on June 21, at age 48.

Mike started Not By Choice with his Ajax High School friend Glenn ‘Chico’ Dunning back in 1997. They had initially played a few shows under different names that may or may not be suitable for print, but our moniker came from Mike bothering his younger sister Chrissy at the dinner table. When she couldn’t take any more of his taunting, she promptly told her Mom, Pat, that he was annoying her – Pat yelled ‘Well, he’s your brother!’ to which Chrissy quickly replied ‘Yeah, not by choice!’. With that, a real band was born.

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